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Neutrinos on Ice

Thursday March 27, 2008

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Neutrinos on Ice

View of signal cables from strings of Digital Optical Modules extending down into the ice. Elusive particles, called neutrinos, will be detected arriving from distant astrophysical sources and carrying information about those sources, just as rays of light reveal objects to conventional telescopes.

Credit: Dr. Kathie L. Olsen, National Science Foundation

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